Ronald F. Lehman

Ronald Frank Lehman II (born March 25, 1946, in Napa, California)[1] is currently Director of the Center for Global Security Research at the United States Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

He is also Chair of the Governing Board of International Science and Technology Center, an intergovernmental organization headquartered in Moscow and is a member of the Department of Defense Threat Reduction Advisory Committee.

From 1985 to 1988, he served in the State Department as U.S. Chief Negotiator on Strategic Offensive Arms (START I) in Geneva.

Lehman testified regularly before the U.S. Congress and was on the advisory board of the United States Institute of Peace.

He has served three U.S. Presidents (Reagan, Bush, and Clinton), three Secretaries of State, three Secretaries of Defense, and three National Security Advisors in a variety of senior executive and advisory positions to promote peace through international disarmament and nonproliferation policymaking.